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lisp: Fix dumb symbol representation #25

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jorendorff opened this issue Jul 20, 2017 · 1 comment
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lisp: Fix dumb symbol representation #25

jorendorff opened this issue Jul 20, 2017 · 1 comment

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Right now the Value::Symbol variant is a clown car, and there's some super tricky, uncommented code at the bottom of value.rs to cope with it. Separate variants Value::InternedSymbol(Whatever) and Value::Gensym(usize) would be way saner.
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...On the other hand, gensyms might make a nice test case if the GC were to expose a WeakMap primitive.

...On the other other hand, WeakMaps are hard to implement efficiently.

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